The Latest from the U.S. Census

March 25, 2011. By: Julian Johannesen

Yesterday the Census Bureau delivered the last of the state-level files from the 2010 Census. That means every state is now armed and ready for redistricting, and many are already knee-deep in it. In addition to more redistricting data, we learned a few other things about the nation’s population.

For example, the U.S. mean center of population on April 1, 2010 was Plato, Missouri (37.517534 N, 92.173096 W, to be exact). Wondering what the mean center of population is? The Census Bureau’s Twitter account described it as the “Place where flat, weightless, rigid map of US would balance perfectly if all residents were of identical weight.”

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